³ unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

¹³ and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.

¹¹ for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power,

¹⁹ I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last `are' more than the first.

⁶ for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

³ We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

²⁴ for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for `it'?

²⁵ and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect `it'.

³ for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

³⁶ for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

¹⁵ and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;

¹⁰ for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

¹¹ and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,

¹¹ May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

⁵ hearing of thy love and faith that thou hast unto the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,

⁶ that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that `is' in you toward Christ Jesus;

⁷ for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

³ I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

⁴ desiring greatly to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that with joy I may be filled,

⁵ taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

³ for this `is' right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

⁶ And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see' you,

⁷ By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

⁸ By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

¹⁷ By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

²⁴ by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,

²⁵ having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

²⁶ greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

²⁷ by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured;

²⁸ by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.

²⁹ By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up;

³⁰ by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;

³¹ by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.

³² And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,

³³ who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,

³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

¹⁸ My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

³ and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

⁴ but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

⁷ Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;

⁸ be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;

¹⁷ so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

¹⁸ But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

¹⁹ thou -- thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

²⁰ And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?

²¹ Abraham our father -- was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?

²² dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?

²³ and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.

²⁴ Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

²⁵ and in like manner also Rahab the harlot -- was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth?

²⁶ for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

³ knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

⁴ and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

²¹ make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom `is' the glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.

¹³ Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

¹⁴ for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

⁹ and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

¹³ For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

³¹ and he said, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy kind acts were remembered before God;

¹⁹ reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

¹⁵ When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, `son' of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.'

¹⁶ He saith to him again, a second time, `Simon, `son' of Jonas, dost thou love me?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Tend my sheep.'

¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, `Simon, `son' of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;

¹⁰ if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

²² Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?'

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

¹⁵ `If ye love me, my commands keep,

²⁷ work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- `even' God.'

²⁸ They said therefore unto him, `What may we do that we may work the works of God?'

²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, `This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.'

⁷ Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down -- they tread upon it.

²⁶ For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

²⁰ and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.

⁷ to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

³ And not only `so', but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

⁴ and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

⁵ and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

⁴ who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

⁷ but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

⁸ not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

⁹ for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

¹⁵ and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

⁵⁸ so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

⁴ The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

⁵ doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

⁶ rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷ all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

²⁶ and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith --

⁶ Salute Mary, who did labour much for us;

¹³ and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

⁴ for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

¹² in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

¹⁰ `Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

² I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

³ and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

⁴ `But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

¹⁷ for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.